Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: An Astronaut's View of the Earth

Wayward Pines

"Blood Harvest"

Television series Season 2 episode 2

Wednesday 01 June 2016

00 hours 37 minutes 41 seconds

Jason Higgins: Tonight, the people of Wayward Pines are going to eat real food. The fence will hold, the rebels are crushed. The town is starting to finally come back together.

Kerry Campbell: Theresa's running around, asking about Ben.

Jason Higgins: I know.

Kerry Campbell: The rules, Jason. No First Gen. can harm another First Gen. We were taught that.

Jason Higgins: I didn't harm him. I exiled him. The Abbies did the harm. He tried to turn us against each other.

Kerry Campbell: You might have to explain that to some people.

Jason Higgins: I shouldn't have to. He wasn't really First Gen., anyway. He came in late. He's not an original.

Kerry Campbell: I'm not an original, either.

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From 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA - 1990 Astronaut Candidates Selected ) To 6/1/2016 is 9632 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/17/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"An Astronaut's View of the Earth" ) is 9632 days

From 7/25/1946 ( the United States Operation Crossroads - Bikini Atoll - 2nd of 2 atomic bomb detonations and underwater detonation code-name Baker ) To 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 18474 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/1/2016 is 18474 days

From 4/30/1954 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stories of the Century"::"Chief Crazy Horse" ) To 6/1/2016 is 22678 days

22678 = 11339 + 11339

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days

From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 6/1/2016 is 9814 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/15/1992 ( premiere US TV series "Delta" ) is 9814 days

From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 6/1/2016 is 7834 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/15/1987 ( premiere US TV series episode "Hard Knocks"::"The End of the World" ) is 7834 days

From 3/9/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Devil in the Dark" ) To 6/1/2016 is 17982 days

17982 = 8991 + 8991

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/15/1990 ( premiere US film "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" ) is 8991 days

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Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 2

Blood Harvest

Aired Jun 01, 2016 on FOX

Episode Summary

When Kerry needs an emergency operations, Theo begins to realize the power that he holds over the First Generation. Meanwhile, Theresa tries to convince the soldiers to search fro Ben outside the wall, and a food shortage requires a desperate plan.

AIRED: 6/1/16

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Delta Season 1 Episode 1

Climb That Mountain

Aired Thursday 8:00 PM Sep 15, 1992 on ABC

AIRED: 9/15/92

EP: "1.0" (2013)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bigdata/dangerous.html

AZ

Big Data

"Dangerous"

(feat. Joywave)

How could you know, how could you know?
That those were my eyes
Peepin' through the floor, it's like they know
It's like they know I'm looking from the outside
And creeping to the door, it's like they know

And now they're coming, yeah, now they're coming
Out from the shadows
To take me to the court because they know
That I'll shut this down, 'cause they been watching all my windows
They've gathered up the warrant 'cause they
You understand they've got a plan for us
I bet you didn't know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn't know someone could love you this much

How could they know, how could they know
What I've been thinking?
Like they're right inside my head because they know
Because they know, what I've been hidin'
They're right under my bed, they're on patrol

Here they come, yeah here they come
Out of the shadows
To take me to the court because they know
That I'll shut this down, 'cause they been watching all my windows
They've gathered up the warrant 'cause they
I've gotta get out of here
Sink down, into the dark
Keep on running
And I've gotta get out of here (keep on running)
Sink down, into the dark

You understand they've got a plan for us
I bet you didn't know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn't know someone could love you this much

Nobody's listening and we're alone
Nobody's listening, there's nobody listening,
No one can hear us when we're alone
No one can hear us, no, no one can hear us
And I've gotta get out of here
Sink down, into the dark
Keep on running
I've gotta get out of here (keep on running)
Sink down, into the dark
You understand they've got a plan for us
I bet you didn't know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn't know someone could love you this much

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099700/releaseinfo

IMDb

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Release Info

USA 15 June 1990

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099700/fullcredits

IMDb

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Full Cast & Crew

Phoebe Cates ... Kate Beringer

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Kate Beringer: The rules!

http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-devil-in-the-dark-24910/

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Star Trek Season 1 Episode 25

The Devil in the Dark

Aired Mar 09, 1967 on NBC

AIRED: 3/9/67

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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:04 PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 01, 2016

Wayward Pines

http://www.excite.com/tv/prog.jsp?id=EP016769470020&s=201606012100&sid=36009&sn=KAYUDT&st=201606012100&cn=103

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Wayward Pines (New)

103 KAYUDT: Wednesday, June 1 9:00 PM [ 9:00 PM Wednesday 01 June 2016 Pacific Time USA ]

Crime drama, Mystery

Blood Harvest

Theo leverages his status as the only surgeon in town to get answers about his wife and information from Jason Higgins; Megan Fisher leads research being conducted on the Abbies.

Cast: Jason Patric, Djimon Hounsou, Hope Davis, Tom Stevens, Nimrat Kaur, Josh Helman, Kacey Rohl Executive Producer(s): M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line, Chad Hodge, Ashwin Rajan

Original Air Date: Jun 01, 2016

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The Americans (New)

665 FXPHD: Wednesday, June 1 10:00 PM [ 10:00 PM Wednesday 01 June 2016 Pacific Time USA ]

Drama

A Roy Rogers in Franconia

Paige begins to see her mother in a new light.

Cast: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Annet Mahendru, Susan Misner, Alison Wright, Richard Thomas, Lev Gorn, Costa Ronin Executive Producer(s): Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Graham Yost, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank

Original Air Date: Jun 01, 2016

Rainbow Six (1998)

Tom Clancy

CHAPTER 10

"Yes, General, I know," Clark said into the phone at 1:05 the next afternoon, damning time zones as he did so.

"That comes out of my budget, too," General Wilson pointed out. First, CINC-SNAKE thought, they ask for a man, then they ask for hardware, and now, they are asking for funding, too.

"I can try to help with that through Ed Foley, sir, but the fact of the matter is that we need the asset to train with. You did send us a pretty good man," Clark added, hoping to assuage Wilson's renowned temper.

It didn't help much. "Yes, I know he's good. That's why he was working for me in the first goddamned place."

This guy's getting ecumenical in his old age, John told himself. Now he's praising a Marine-rather unusual for an Army snake eater and former commander of XVIII Airborne Corps.

"General-sir, you know we've had a couple of jobs already, and with all due modesty, my people handled them both pretty damned well. I have to fight for my people, don't I?"

And that calmed Wilson down. They were both commanders, they both had jobs to do, and people to, command and defend.

"Clark, I understand your position. I really do. But I can't train my people on assets that you've taken away."

"How about we call it time-sharing?" John offered, as a further olive branch. "It still wears out a perfectly good Night Hawk."

"It also trains up the crews for you. At the end of this, on may just have a primo helicopter crew to bring down to Bragg to work with your people-and the training expense for your operation is just about nothing, sir." And that, he thought, was a pretty good play.

At MacDill Air Force Base, Wilson told himself that this was a losing proposition. Rainbow was a bulletproof operation, and everyone knew it. This Clark guy had sold it first of all to CIA, then to the President himself-and sure enough, they'd had two deployments, and both had worked out, though the second one had been pretty dicey. But Clark, clever as he was, and good commander that he seemed to be, hadn't learned how to run a unit in the modern military world, where half the time was spent managing money like some goddamned white-socked accountant, instead of leading from the front and training with the troops. That's what really rankled Sam Wilson, young for a four-star, a professional soldier who wanted to soldier, something that high command pretty well precluded, despite his fitness and desire. Most annoying of all, this Rainbow unit promised to steal a lot of his own business. The Special Operations Command had commit menu all over the world, but the international nature of Rainbow meant that there was now somebody else in the Same line of work, whose politically neutral nature was supposed to make their use a lot more palatable to countries that might need special services. Clark might just put him out of business in a real sense, and Wilson didn't like that at all. But, really, he had no choice in the matter, did he?

"Okay, Clark, you can use the aircraft so long as the parent unit is able to part with it, and so long as its use by you does not interfere with training and readiness with that parent unit. Clear?"

"Yes, sir, that is clear," John Clark acknowledged.

"I need to come over to see your little circus," Wilson said next.

"I'd like that a lot, General."

"We'll see," Wilson grumbled, breaking the connection.

- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:04 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 01 June 2016

excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:04 PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 01, 2016

http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: Well, well, well. What have we got here? ...I love a good peep show.

(Cochrane looks through a telescope and sees the Enterprise orbiting)

COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?

LAFORGE: It's your telescope.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-27/news/mn-178_1_space-telescope

Los Angeles Times

Touchy Telescope Torments Controllers : Space: Scientists encounter 'more problems than we anticipated,' but they are still confident.

April 27, 1990 LEE DYE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

GREENBELT, Md. — The Hubble Space Telescope spent its first full day in orbit Thursday tormenting the engineers and scientists on the ground who would be its masters.

As it orbited 381 miles above the Earth, 50 miles in front of the shuttle Discovery, the $1.5 billion telescope balked at communicating with ground controllers and played the leading role in a series of dramas that had the experts gnawing on their fingernails.

"I feel like we've had a lot more problems than we had anticipated," said Michael M. Harrington, director of orbital verification at the Goddard Space Flight Center here. But he quickly added that he is "confident" that he and his fellow engineers will prevail.

The most threatening problem began just as Harrington was showing up for work. The previous shift had failed in its attempts to establish communications with the telescope through its twin high-gain antennas. The telescope also has a secondary communications system, but the high-gain antennas will be the primary means for transmitting scientific data back from the telescope, and the loss would have been catastrophic.

Harrington's team determined that the communications link had failed because the telescope probably was not pointing exactly where they thought it was, and thus the antennas were not pointing at the sophisticated communications satellite that serves as NASA's link to its space vehicles.

The orientation of the telescope is determined partly by "fixed star trackers," small telescopes on board the Hubble that reveal the locations of various stars whose positions are well known. That information tells ground controllers how much and which way to move the telescope so that it is pointing in the right direction.

After analyzing data from the star trackers, controllers ordered the telescope to move and the antennas locked on the communications satellite and the vital link was completed.

Then a problem cropped up with the secondary communications system which allows the telescope to accept orders from the ground.

That left ground controllers wondering about how they were going to order the telescope to do anything at all, but within a few tense minutes that problem was resolved too. Engineers determined that it was a human failure on the ground, not a hardware failure in orbit, that caused the problem.

The problems came at the very beginning of what will be a long process--testing and fine tuning the guidance system that will allow astronomers to study distant objects for long periods.

The telescope has the finest mirror ever produced, but it would be useless without a guidance system that will point the telescope at specific targets and hold it "locked on" for hours. Controllers are expected to work for months getting the guidance system perfected.

"It is the requirement to point very precisely that makes the checkout period so long," said Steve Terry, an orbital verification official at Goddard. "This is the first baby step."

Normally, satellites use tiny jets to keep them properly oriented, but even the smallest jets would foul the neighborhood around the space telescope, thus negating the reason for putting it in orbit above the atmosphere.

The telescope uses four large flywheels to move it. As each flywheel spins, the telescope tends to rotate in the direction of the spinning. It works the other way around just as well. Thus controllers can move the telescope in any direction just by controlling the spin of the flywheels. But Thursday, while engineers were still getting acquainted with their new toy, one of the flywheels stopped. It was later restarted after engineers determined that the problem was simply a faulty sensor.

Without at least three of the four flywheels, it would not be possible to point the telescope accurately, so the problem caused a lot of consternation here for awhile.

How accurate does the pointing have to be? To within .007 seconds of arc, said Edward J. Weiler, program scientist at NASA headquarters.

"That's equivalent to if you had a laser beam in Washington and you fired it at New York, you would be able to hit a dime," Weiler said.

"And more importantly, you would be able to hold that beam on that dime for 24 hours a day."

Today, the telescope will pass another milestone when ground controllers order it to open its "aperture door," which serves as a lens cap to prevent sunlight from accidentally entering the telescope and burning out some of the instruments.

If that procedure works properly, Discovery, which has been shadowing the telescope ever since it was released Wednesday, will be free to make its 6:49 a.m. landing Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base.

If the aperture door should jam, however, the shuttle will pull alongside the telescope Saturday and astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan and Bruce McCandless will go outside and try to fix it.

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From 1/17/1990 to 3/8/1990 is 50 days

From 3/8/1990 to 4/27/1990 is 50 days

From 1/24/1965 ( Lyndon Johnson - Statement by the President on the Death of Winston Churchill ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 8942 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/27/1990 is 8942 days

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-28/news/mn-171_1_space-telescope

Los Angeles Times

Space Telescope Opens Its Eye but Spooks Handlers

April 28, 1990 LEE DYE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

GREENBELT, Md. — The Hubble Space Telescope opened its eye to the heavens for the first time Friday, but the $1.5-billion instrument continued to bedevil ground controllers with a myriad of problems.

Troubles with the balky instrument are expected to delay turning the camera on for several days, so the first picture may not be available until the latter part of next week.

Most of the problems encountered Friday stemmed from the fact that the telescope is designed to take care of itself if anything fails. If any one of scores of sensors on board the complex telescope records anything beyond expectations, the telescope is designed to assume a "safe" mode.

When that happens, the telescope does whatever is necessary to make sure that its aperture remains pointed away from the sun so that accidental exposure to the brilliance of sunlight will not damage its instruments. It also automatically orients itself to keep its solar panels exposed to the sun so that its batteries will remain charged.

"We had to build in enough autonomy so that it can be master of its own destiny," said Steve Terry, an orbital verification director at the Goddard Space Flight Center here.

And Friday, it appeared that the Hubble, designed to look farther into the universe than any other telescope, did not like much of what it was seeing.

The telescope shut itself down several times because sensors reported that something was amiss, leaving flight controllers in the dark repeatedly as to where it was pointing and what it was doing.

Communications were out for much of the time, partly because the telescope was not pointing where controllers thought it was, and some of the gyroscopes that maneuver the instrument shut down because they sensed it was moving too quickly.

Engineers here were a bit ruffled by the many problems, but they insisted that it is better to be safe than sorry.

"We're cautious," admitted Terry. "We've got a very expensive spacecraft and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize it."

Controllers also want the telescope to assume various "safe modes" if anything goes wrong so that they will know just what it is doing and where it is pointing, because communication is dependent on knowing the orientation of the spacecraft.

"We don't want the telescope to just wander off and point blindly in space where we could never use it again," Terry said.

Engineers did get some very good news Friday, however, when the 10-foot-wide "aperture door"--NASA-speak for a lens cap--opened on command and allowed the first light from space to strike the telescope's near-perfect mirror.

That allowed the custodians of the telescope to finally release the space shuttle Discovery, which has been shadowing the Hubble in case the door had failed to open.

If the door had remained closed, the Discovery would have closed the 50 miles that separated it from the telescope and astronauts Bruce McCandless, 52, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, 38, would have gone outside and cranked it open.

But with the door safely open, the Discovery was released and Sunday morning commander Loren J. Shriver, 45, and pilot Charles F. Bolden, 43, will guide it down to a 6:49 a.m. landing at Edwards Air Force Base. There is, however, a slight chance that weather at Edwards could delay the landing until Monday.

The fifth member of the crew is Steven Hawley, 38, an astronomer who lifted the telescope out of the Discovery's cargo bay and set it free Wednesday.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27030

The American Presidency Project

Lyndon B. Johnson

XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969

31 - Statement by the President on the Death of Winston Churchill.

January 24, 1965

WHEN THERE was darkness in the world, and hope was low in the hearts of men, a generous Providence [ Kerry's wise and well thought-out note: the blathering of fools cowardly terrified of mortality ] gave us Winston Churchill.

As long as men tell of that time of terrible danger and of the men who won the victory, the name of Churchill will live.

Let us give thanks that we knew him. With our grief let there be gratitude for a life so fully lived, for services so splendid, and for the joy he gave by the joy he took in all he did.

The people of the United States--his cousins and his fellow citizens--will pray with his British countrymen for God's [ Kerry's wise and well thought-out note: all religion and other "spirituality" is the cowardice of superstitious fools blathering about their terror of mortality ] eternal blessing on this man, and for comfort to his family.

He is History's child, and what he said and what he did will never die.

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NOVA Season 19 Episode 17

An Astronaut's View of the Earth

Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Mar 17, 1992 on PBS

AIRED: 3/17/92

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https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1990/90-007.txt

NASA official website

Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

January 17, 1990 3:00 p.m. EST

Johnson Space Center, Houston

RELEASE: 90-7

1990 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES SELECTED

In the first of what will become standard biennial selections, 23 new astronaut candidates have been named for the Space Shuttle program.

The candidates were chosen from among 1,945 qualified applicants, 106 of whom received interviews and medical examinations between September and November 1989. They will report to the Johnson Space Center, Houston, in July to begin a year of training and evaluation, after which they will receive technical assignments leading to selection for Shuttle flight crews.

The 1990 group consists of 7 pilot candidates and 16 mission specialist candidates, including 11 civilians and 12 military officers. Among the 5 women selected are 3 military officers, including the first woman to be named as a pilot candidate, and the first Hispanic woman to be chosen. A listing of the candidates and biographical data follows.

A listing of the candidates and their birthplaces follow. A listing of the candidates and short biographical sketches are available from all NASA newsrooms.

From 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA - 1990 Astronaut Candidates Selected ) To 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 2592 days

2592 = 1296 + 1296

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/21/1969 ( the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) is 1296 days

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-22/news/mn-31286_1_night-landing

Los Angeles Times

Shuttle Lights the Sky in Rare Night Landing

February 22, 1997 From Washington Post

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Putting on a spectacular light show, the shuttle Discovery returned to Earth before dawn Friday like a blazing comet, leaving the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope behind in orbit with a new lease on life.

Leaving a trail of fire as it streaked above Houston at 8,700 mph, Discovery settled to a ghostly nighttime landing at the Kennedy Space Center just 18 minutes later, at 3:32 a.m. EST, to close out a five-spacewalk, $350-million overhaul of the famous telescope.

"You lit up the entire sky with the orbiter and its trail," astronaut Kevin Kregel radioed the crew from mission control in Houston. "It was pretty impressive."

"It was a pretty good view from here too," commander Kenneth Bowersox replied. "We almost saw the Astrodome."

It was only the ninth night landing in shuttle history and just the fourth at the Florida spaceport. But Bowersox and pilot Scott "Doc" Horowitz had no problems picking out the shuttle runway's brilliant lights in the darkness.

"You have this yellow brick road right out in front of you," Bowersox said later, referring to new lights embedded in the center of the 3-mile-long runway. "You just keep the orbiter going right down the yellow brick road."

Touchdown came one orbit late because of cloudy weather at the Florida landing site. But by the time Discovery had rounded the planet for another try, the weather had improved and flight director Wayne Hale gave the crew permission to head for home.